"enterprise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the last year alone veteran editors have published two books - Andre Schiffrin's "Business of Books" and Jason Epstein's more laconically titled (but less depressed) "Book Business" - basically making the case that publishing is a hopeless enterprise.
- The neighborhood was commercial land not yet occupied by factories, jumble of small shops, marginal businesses, hovels, and hopeless minor enterprise.
- There were over 2,000 Druuf ships participating in the encirclement and this concentration turned a transition into a hopeless enterprise.
- G.T Griffith has written that Achaean War was a hopeless enterprise for the Achaeans, badly led and backed by no adequate reserves of money or men.
- But you should have known from the beginning that you embarked on a hopeless enterprise.
- The distinctive sense of abandon is that of giving up a thing absolutely and finally; as, to abandon one's friends, places, opinions, good or evil habits, a hopeless enterprise, a shipwrecked vessel.
- He who would wade into this swamp must first immerse himself in Buckley vs. Valeo , the 1976 Supreme Court case that made campaign-finance reform a sadistically complicated and possibly hopeless enterprise.
- Ugaki exemplified the unthinking militarism and the kamikaze spirit - indeed he became a kamikaze - of many Japanese career officers, while Kurita represented a more complicated type; he was a military leader unwilling to sacrifice lives endlessly in a hopeless enterprise.
- I tried to out manoeuvre the enemy and break through to the south-west but it was a hopeless enterprise.
- So worry was really a hopeless enterprise, in that it could not do anything.
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